PALI LEHOHLA | In the dark after disaster strikes, who will offer a blanket?
We’d do well to follow Batswana’s advice on how a nation carries itself when its survival is under threat
03 September 2023 - 19:35
The Batswana idiom of fifing go tshwarwanwa ka dikobo is the opportunity for a social compacting process we desire. King Moshoeshoe embraced this to eliminate cannibalism and built a nation...
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